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You're kind of free on Sunday until Rangers Astros at seven. Game two will be Monday in Houston at three point thirty. Cowboys play Monday night about a seven fifteen kickoff usually, so you know Monday's gonna be busy, hectic, afternoon. But that's that's good to got us a break there. I'm stoked about this, and I didn't. I haven't paid much attention to the rest of like what's going on in the baseball playoffs, because you know you're in.
It's like whatever I saw. The Dodgers got beat out by the Diamondbacks. Okay, man, All year long, people are saying it's just the Braves. It doesn't matter. I mean, the Braves are the best team in baseball. The Braves were eliminated last night by the Phillies. Yep,
so the Braves are done. So I we know nothing when it comes to that, Like what you did for one hundred and six two games kind of doesn't mean anything when you look at a five game series where three wins is all it takes to move on. I saw highlights of all that, and then I had this flash moment that even if this series against the Astros goes great for us, right and he advanced to the World Series, we are probably gonna have to have our Nick Castillanos moment, Like the dude would hit
multi home run games the last two games. Yeah, and the dude who's been the most memed MLB player in the last five years of no fault of his own. Yeah, all he does is hit home runs. He just had another one. The other day. They were talking about Charlie Manuel, the Philly skipper for all those years, and he had a stroke or something, and they have the sat home run, Yes, and they show him.
They show they like shout out to Charlie Manuel, and they show him doing rehab and he's trying to walk and he's got a bat and he's trying to like pretend to hit. And the second they come back from Charlie Mannu Owl's recovery, nasty Nick smashes one around. Another home run for Nick Castrianos. It's amazing, it really is. We if we're lucky and get there, we're gonna have to very likely face slick Nick. He's gonna hit a significant home run. As we talk about the death of I don't want to
predict anyone's death. I don't predict another death. So our final four is Phillies, Diamondbacks, Astros range of star power there with Philly with obviously Bryce Harper Castianos. If you want to go that route, boy, the dive Backs, the team I can't tell you much about I mean, huh the Diamondbacks. Yeah, that's one that takes a little bit of work to go to read up on them. But they were eight, I mean they were you know. So with this series the Rangers, basically, let's start with
a couple of things. The Rangers scored a little bit more than the Astros, and we talk about the Rangers offense. The Rangers offense is great. If we're rounding up and down, both teams average five runs a game, So offense a wash. Starting pitching, if we're rounding up and down, both the Ras are a four. Okay, the Rangers were seventh and starting pitching era the Astros were twelve, we'll call that a wash. Okay, especially if we get Shirs Aer back and John Gray even maybe maybe gotta have
both of them. If we get both those guys back, now we can fully call it I think a wash. I think it's advantage Houston for sure. If we don't have shirt Holds as is, it's Montgomery Evald. It's one thing to you know, with with the toolbox that they have to get past Tampa and Baltimore. But I think they need I think they need more
weapons to take this series. And I think it's kind of contingent upon if these two guys snap back, if you get Gray and Sureser, and there's a big there's a big risk in adding Sureser, a big risk in adding him, because if he is effective for a game, you know, or two, and then somehow gets reinjured, guess what next year? No, No, you don't get to replace him on in the World Series. Oh
yeah, if for whatever reason he you know, they advance. Okay, Yeah, it's odd that it's a roster spot risk, is what I'm saying. That our next series and hopefully two series might in a big way hinge on Max Schurzer. That's all you trade for him, I guess, right, yes, And that should sound good, right, that should be a good thing. And I don't know if it's just baseball pessimism and I'm just
scared of him. I don't know going out there and we'll see. But don't you also feel that, out of all of their pitchers, the moment is not too big for him more than any of the other ones should be. Yeah, he's a bulldog and he's the best starting pitcher we have, right, Yeah, I meant at his best, it's not well, I don't. It's close, but yeah, he's the dominant ace, big dog
one, a bulldog that you need in these things. It's allowed them to go a little unconventional in the bullpen with Andrew Heeney, with Dane Dunning and with Martine Perez and yeah, he can throw Cody Bradford in that boat too. You're now bulky. So if you're telling me we got a slow rolls, we're gonna start Sureser, but like, hey, three innings and then we want to have him for later in this series and maybe build up, then you can kind of go that route. And saddling Sureser with Heeny is
better than saddling Heeny with Dunning, you know. So that's kind of a way to look at it too. And they don't have to make this decision until Sunday on Max. Yeah, yeah, ex active rosters at Saturday or Sunday Sunday is what i'mday. Yeah, And he did have a sixty pitch sim game and Bochie said it was quote really encouraging. So do we think there's any chance that because we haven't named our starter right for Sunday, our starter will be Jordan Montgomery. Are you just saying that, I'm saying that
I'm guessing. Okay, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm guessing because given that it was Tuesday night, that we won Game three right Tuesday night, and that was Evaldi, I mean, that'd be normal rest for Evaldi to go Game two on Monday. So I think we'll go Montgomery Eovaldi, and then on Wednesday. Hypothetically, Max Scherzer could be your starter or John Gray. They're gonna have to smash their way through the series. You just I think their best case is that you hope and pray that this offense,
which got hot when the playoffs started, remains on those tracks. Man. Yeah, and Verlander is there game on their game one starter. They've made the call on that. Yeah. And then Framber Valdez too. We can't lose to a dude named fram that's not even a real name, real person. I don't think Framburg Framber, that's just an AI mistake. The it's a name that a guy gave his daughter, but he really wanted a son and name him Fred. It's so he said, it's like you're Amber,
but you know what, You're not just going to be Amber. Gave AI the news to come up with a Latin picture's name that no one's ever said before. Framber Framber Framber. Oh, bullpens. The bullpens for the Rangers twenty fourth in the league. The Astros were seventh. There's the advantage, the clear cut advantage in this series is that Rangers can make up for it with good defense. They can and big leads and the Astros big big, big leads, big leads, And it means it's like the Cowboys. The
Cowboys need a big lead, right, It's done the same thing. Get ahead. Yeah. The good news is and if the Ashers have home field, like you would like to have home field, clearly whatever. Ashers were kind of crappy at home this year. They were thirty nine and forty two thirty on the road. They clean house on the road, and that that home record was an improvement for where they were in the middle of the season.
They were really, really bad at home for a long time. It was a joke in the first two months of the season like they're gonna miss the playoffs because they can't win at home. Rangers had a plus thirty six run differential on them and the Rangers a lot of that might be Okay, they smacked the ball around a lot of that too. Might be your run differential is really good when your losses are a lot of one run loss offs. Yeah, because you're bullpen blew it. Chapman's what I'm worried about.
There's history here, obviously without two v but or oldest Chapman against Houston a five point five to five era. There are no signs that any of this is going to be better. Traditionally, I look at stats against a certain team and kind of throw that out the window, like, okay, whatever, you can pile that. What matters is the next series. But he's looked like garbage, and he's going to a and he does seem like a mental head case at times, and it kind of like, yeah, I
don't know if I want him pitching at all this series. And then you'll get to a point where like it'd be nice if we had someone who threw the ball hard. Yeah, someone wing at one oh one. Yeah, So he'll he'll be on the roster because he has to be. I still, the more I watch, I just think that the whole team is like he's vaguely aware that he's on the Texas Rangers right now. He's hardly knows. Like he's played on all these teams, he's just and even the rest
of the team is like he doesn't know what he's doing. He just goes out there and wings it and he either pisses us off or it happens to go over the over the strike zone and then it's good. I don't know. It just seems like the oddest relationship, like and a lot of it is the eye rolling and there whoever's playing catcher at the time. After the after he threw like two or three balls, he's kind of like, god, what. No one knows what to say to him. There's nothing you
can say to him. It's the one time we've seen Bochi like look, yeah, I don't know, visibly frustrated with one of his players. It's probably because knows I can't do anything to take him out. I don't know. It was like, I ain't going out there. What am I gonna say? Seriously? What what? What is a pitching coach gonna say to Chapman? Right to most pictures, Mike Maddox I think has that soothing,
calming voice that's perfect. He did make a mound visit with the translator with a translator in Game three against Baltimore, and they were laughing, like I like Madics always. If anybody can connect to this guy, that's probably more. That's probably less about. Okay, here's what you need to do. Your mechanics are a little off. No, that's just take a pause because you're throwing one oh three three feet above your catcher's head and you completely lost
the strike zone. I think you go out there just to make him pause, not to even say anything. No, there's nothing you can say. All you can do is this will take another two minutes that maybe hopefully he takes a breath. But then the next one goes telling the translator did you tell him to get his ass in gear? Translators like absolutely, and translator says nothing of the sort, because Eraldus Chapman has gun charges in his past.
Like you don't hear some bochy audio A couple things, one involving the buttocks scandal. JJ, if you'll creak me up, don't replay this from the other night. This is after game three. Uh, let me unmute it. Here we go saying I need to know right now, hegi, what's the number on your ass? Right? Okay, so that what's the number on his ass? He was asked yes to day's press conference. This is from the Twitter feed of our friend Stefan Stevenson. Stefan versus text.
Some things are sacricine in this clubhouse. That's That's where I'll leave it down the road. Yah, I'll talk about it a little bit right now. Now, I have to keep that one to myself. Okay, So he's not gonna tell us what is on Hedgie's ass. Austin Hedges the third catcher. They traded cash considerations for you know what, the deadline and he's on the roster. Yeah, that's so funny. I mean, if I'm or Garver, I mean, yeah, I don't know. Is weird. He's
not really going to play. He's there to be a pictures the open. If have a fourteen to two league in the eighth, yeh, let's bring in Hedgy in his butt tattoo. Like I always think of Major League with the uh the owner girl and they take the pieces of her off. Yeah, so it's something sort of like that, something bad, kind of like maybe whoever lockers next to him drew a one on his ass? Yeah?
When they won the first playoff game. Yeah, and he's like, dude, stop it, and then hey, I drew I drew one win on Hedgey's ass, Like it's something that don't I hope it's way more than the eight balls tattoo. Okay, stop saying that. The other guy yells, we got it, we need eight more. I agree with nobody says eight ball. He doesn't have an eight ball tattic. I'm just playing both sides. I hope it's not that though. That has been a theory that's been
thrown out by you two. Yes, that doesn't mean you can keep repeating it as a viable theory, the only one. Just some people on Twitter have been mounting that around too. But yeah, yeah, okay, this is on tensions between Rangers and Astros and Gell is something that goes with this after I think you move forward, I don't. I mean it's there's a lot of intensity when you have and I say we're rivals. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of intensity involved in the game, and that's going to
happen. It won't be lasting the last time it happens, I'm sure, but right now, Okay, So back in in July, there was a big thing that happened involving Astro's catcher, Martin Maldonado, and there is some kind of throwing at each other a little bit or this little butt hurt going on, you know, back and forth. And Marcus Simeon, who played all one hundred and sixty two games, was ejected from a game in July,
and he scored after a dolly hit of grand slam. He scored, and he looked at Martin Maldonado and he shushed him, and Martin Maldonado was talking back. And Martin Maldonado is a kind of a known instigator and he's not there everyday catcher, but he's a known instigator a little bit. But there's a little bit of throwing back and forth. We did have a little
bit of a benches clearing situation in July. Nothing like Banister and aj Hinch pointing at each other's face because of rookie, you know, seven years ago. But there's a little something there that's been brewing, and Doli Scarcia's got to do it a little bit of it. Peppin home runs, which he does, which is great. It's there's something there. Heene hit jord On Alvarez on the shoulder and then Alvarez stared back at heene. So there has
been some stuff. This is where we talked about the Emily Jones and having to delete her Twitter account thing. I didn't know this. So the guy that runs her Tato barbecue at the ballpark, Brandon Hurtado, I guess his pit boss at the game where they have it in the stadium, was like this. Mastros fans were just like mean, and then her Tato ended up tweeting. In an interview, he said there were people in Astro's jerseys walking
out in handcuffs, fights breaking out, people READO our employer. He's at the stand. So it's a rough series all around. Then he tweeted, Astros have the worst fan base in any Major League sport anywhere. And I used to think the Giants were bad, and I think you're the New York Giants. Astro's fans responded to that tweet from Brandon Hurtado and started flooding Yelp with terrible reviews of her Tato barbecue. That's such dirty pool. That is
dirty play. Don't mess with the man's pocketbook. I like, whatever you do, respect a man's woman. And respect a man's pocketbook. Don't go to yelp and trash a business, especially if it's barbecue. God, that's sound screwed up. Because if if you were in some city far away and you looked up and you wanted some food and one place had a three point four and the other place had a four point eight, I would go to the four point eight. Like it couldn't matter. It could. It absolutely
does matter, and it's probably unfair that it matters. Yes, And I'm the idiot for letting it matter. I think we all are though we're conditioned. You know, it's what's there, it's in the phone. I'm going to leave a bad review of yelp on yelp. Okay, you know, oh good idea, giant brain, think about it. Leave a bad review of the Houston Astros on yelp. Then their place will be empty by the time Dingu gets done with them. One review. There are a bunch of
cheaters, Star. I took a lot of heat. Not heat, but you know a lot of people coming at me a little bit on Twitter yesterday based on the idea of like, there's no proof of the alto ve button, and I was like, if y'all want to live in a world where we're just going to go by the words of an MLB investigation, MLB, the last thing they want is for one of their star players and announced that
he was wearing a buzzer. Stupid, take your shirt off six months after it happened, and there was no buzzer, so he didn't have one. But did he have assist he didn't want everyone to see. Yeah, he was freaking out about the idea of his shirt being and six years ago. I'm not trying to do that because in a way, Rangers fans going well, you cheated six years ago is the same as Astro's fans going, well everyone does it? Like we should really lock in on what's coming up?
What about is them? It's the best defense for anything. Maybe he has a triple nipple? Oh ann you know you know who? Oh Harry Styles has a triple nipple? Does he really third one? Yeah? Are you sure? Is it right next to one of these or is it right in the middle. It's actually honest, Penis you're weird. I said are you sure? And you immediately said, yeah, no, he doesn't. It doesn't. Is there a picture of it? Yeah? It doesn't. Oh, I don't know if there's a picture of it, but he has a
third nipple. A nipple on his penis sounds like something my toddler would say, I have a nipple on my penis. No, no, he has four nipples. Sorry, he has four nipples. Harry Styles is a cow full utter. Okay, I just looked up celebrities with a third nipple. Can you name any other celebrities with a third nipple? Matthew Perry, well, he's not on my little list that showed out, But Harry Styles is four, as is Mark Wahlberg. Okay, Bill Paxton, Oh, the
late great Bill Paxton, legendary Wilson, till the Swinton. That lady from the uh Frona, That lady from the Total Recall Movie had three Okay she did, Okay, lady, that actress will probably be on here. But zach Efron is the star of the new Iron Claw and Shirt off the whole movie. He's got a tryboob. Do you think they're cging it out? They have to also Carrie Underwood three nips on this quick unconfirmed list of celebrities with a third nipple. If Till the Swinton has three nipples. Then Tom
York has three nipples because they're kind of the same person. I would not be surprised at all that till the Swinton would have a triple nipple. No, not at all. See I'm seeing a picture one it's just sounds like a you have a mole. See this is stupid. Here's here's Mark Warberg with a shirt off. He's got regular nipples and he happens to have a mole beneath like one of them. And we're gonna just point at this guy and say, triple nipple. Oh, Harry styles mite four And that's real.
That one he can he can disperse milk out of it too. Yeah. The third one, it's a fully functional female breast. It's crazy and it's you know, who do you think any part of We were having such good, really elevated intelligent ranger talk. Yeah, like really good stuff, and then it happened. This happened. Whatever do you think of that of stuff? Anyways, take no pride. We know Jose Brao is not wearing an electrical device because his jersey is half off. Anyway. Yeah, that's
a scary looking dude. Are We're all gonna be scared of him. He's been beasting too, and his jersey is unbuttoned half more than halfway chains. He's got a little Captain Lou Albano bits and the beard. He's got a rubber band and some sort of tale. He's a frightening man, and we're all about to go to bed with nightmares about Jose Brave after Sunday. I think there's always one guy that they come up to the plate and you're like,
oh god, that's how about three or four of those guys. But Jordan Alvarez, every time you're like, he's gonna get a walk or a home run or double the gap, he's not getting out. And that's maybe how teams feel about facing Corey Seeger. Yeah, you know, but that is happening, and so they can match that a little better than the Orioles
can. Mike, we're gonna push our frinkle spot back to after the scuttle butt A right, We're gonna do that, and coming up next it is the scuttle but a huge event happening tomorrow in the daytime in the morning. I'm gonna let you know what that is next. On ninety seven to one, The Freak